Tuesday, July 3, 2012

JULY 3, 2012

"Keep a fire for the human race Let your prayers go drifting into space You never know what will be coming down Perhaps a better world is drawing near And just as easily it could all disappear Along with whatever meaning you might have found Don't let the uncertainty turn you around (the world keeps turning around and around) Go on and make a joyful sound."

Into a dancer you have grownFrom a seed somebody else has thrownGo on ahead and throw some seeds of your ownAnd somewhere between the time you arriveAnd the time you goMay lie a reason you were aliveBut you'll never know. For A Dancer- Jackson Browne

FROM GINANDTACOS:

It never fails to amaze me how easily most Americans can reconcile our wealth and self appointed greatest-country-ever status with the overall shabbiness of so much of their surroundings – the collapsing bridges, the antique power grid, the slowest-in-the-Western-world broadband internet infrastructure, the 19th Century rail system, the two generations old cellular network, the old (and increasingly privatized) water supply, and so on. Of course it didn't happen. As usual, the only thing we managed to do is fix and repave some highways. And we don't even do a very good job of that.

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WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAMS

One of my favorite scenes in the movie...the one with Bill Murray...is when Murray stumbles upon President Richard Nixon in the men's room and Nixon answers a question: "Fuck the Poor!" It sums up the prevailing attitude of many who call themselves Libertarians or Republicans, especially if they are non-white.